Comparability of Mortality Estimates from Social Surveys and Vital Statistics Data in the United States
Comparability of Mortality Estimates from Social Surveys and Vital Statistics Data in the United States
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DOI：
10.1007/s11113-018-9505-1
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
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2.4
通讯作者：
Kalousova, Lucie
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作者：
Brown, Dustin C.;Lariscy, Joseph T.;Kalousova, Lucie
预期与死亡记录相联系的社会调查为研究社会和经济环境与死亡率之间的关系提供了宝贵的机会。尽管与调查相关的死亡率文件在美国健康差距研究中发挥着重要作用，但目前尚不清楚这些数据集的死亡率估计值彼此之间的一致性如何，以及它们是否与美国生命统计数据可比。我们进行了第一项研究，系统地比较了几个广泛使用的与调查相关的死亡率文件和美国生命统计数据的死亡率估计。我们的结果表明，国家健康访谈调查链接的死亡率文件、健康和退休研究、美国人改变生活研究和美国生命统计数据的死亡率和预期寿命相似。与生命统计数据相比，这些关联数据集中的死亡率略低，预期寿命略高。与生命统计和其他与调查相关的数据集相比，一般社会调查-国家死亡指数的预期寿命估计在较年轻的成年人中要低得多，在较年长的成年人中要高得多。COX比例风险模型对年龄、性别、种族、教育程度和婚姻状况的全因死亡风险进行回归，掩盖了我们在死亡风险绝对衡量标准的比较中观察到的一般社会调查-国家死亡指数的问题。我们为使用与调查相关的死亡率档案的研究人员提供建议。
Social surveys prospectively linked with death records provide invaluable opportunities for the study of the relationship between social and economic circumstances and mortality. Although survey-linked mortality files play a prominent role in U.S. health disparities research, it is unclear how well mortality estimates from these datasets align with one another and whether they are comparable with U.S. vital statistics data. We conduct the first study that systematically compares mortality estimates from several widely used survey-linked mortality files and U.S. vital statistics data. Our results show that mortality rates and life expectancies from the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality Files, Health and Retirement Study, Americans' Changing Lives study, and U.S. vital statistics data are similar. Mortality rates are slightly lower and life expectancies are slightly higher in these linked datasets relative to vital statistics data. Compared with vital statistics and other survey-linked datasets, General Social Survey-National Death Index life expectancy estimates are much lower at younger adult ages and much higher at older adult ages. Cox proportional hazard models regressing all-cause mortality risk on age, gender, race, educational attainment, and marital status conceal the issues with the General Social Survey-National Death Index that are observed in our comparison of absolute measures of mortality risk. We provide recommendations for researchers who use survey-linked mortality files.